Uche Yara – hello hello
Today, Austrian-born, Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist UCHE YARA shares “hello hello,” an urgent new single that channels outrage at collective numbness into one of her most immediate and compelling songs to date.
Also featured as KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune, the track is the latest from her debut album BODYSCANNER, arriving September 25 via goldendays FM, and follows the statement-making title track and video released last month.
Speaking about the track, UCHE shares: “‘hello hello’ reflects a sense of disbelief in the face of the world around us. It asks the questions of how can it be that we all see, but not truly witness? How can we all hear, but not listen? How can we all feel, but remain indifferent? It’s an outcry against collective numbness and a search for empathy in an increasingly overwhelming reality.”
BODYSCANNER is an album that began in the body long before it reached the mind.
Over the following two years since that initial studio session, UCHE followed instinct rather than analysis, creating a record that explores embodiment, self-perception, connection and belonging. Written and produced by UCHE herself, the album emerged from a process she describes simply: “I’ve written the album with my body, and now my mind knows it.” That idea became the foundation of the project. Through the making of BODYSCANNER, dance became less about performance and more about presence; less about being watched and more about listening to what the body was already trying to say.
Pulsing with electronic textures, hypnotic repetition, and a newfound confidence in space and rhythm, BODYSCANNER feels like a club record viewed from an unexpected angle. For years, UCHE found herself disconnected from much of the club culture surrounding her in Berlin. The pressure to perform, consume, conform or escape often felt at odds with what she was searching for. Yet through conversations with friends and experiences within more diverse and queer spaces, she began to imagine something different. “My approach moves away from the digital, hyper-stimulated, show-off realm that chases one dopamine hit and one drop after another at high speed,” UCHE shares. “I’m much more interested in connection rather than consumption.”
Across the album, UCHE explores everything from collective numbness and the pressure to endlessly self-optimize, to the liberating possibilities of shared joy. If previous releases showcased the breadth of her imagination, BODYSCANNER represents something different: the moment those instincts crystallized into a singular vision.
BODYSCANNER EU TOUR 2026
Thu 15 Oct 2026 – Newcastle, UK – ZEROX
Fri 16 Oct 2026 – Manchester, UK – SOUP
Mon 19 Oct 2026 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 Poetry Club
Wed 21 Oct 2026 – Birkenhead, UK – Future Yard
Thu 22 Oct 2026 – London, UK – The Shacklewell Arms
Sat 24 Oct 2026 – Bristol, UK – The Louisiana
Mon 26 Oct 2026 – Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
Tue 27 Oct 2026 – Cologne, Germany – JAKI
Wed 28 Oct 2026 – Paris, France – POPUP!
Fri 30 Oct 2026 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – Rotown
Sun 01 Nov 2026 – Hamburg, Germany – Turmzimmer
Tue 03 Nov 2026 – Munich, Germany – Rote Sonne
Thu 05 Nov 2026 – Vienna, Austria – Arena
Fri 06 Nov 2026 – Berlin, Germany – Sonnenraum
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